Stock market
The Big Picture: Bull Market Signposts: What Happens Before S&P 500 Peaks?
Markets often climb on a wall of worry. Because bull markets tend to start during times of heavy pessimism, many ...
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Game of Trades: It’s Coming. (Imminent Market Volatility)
Since the market’s latest rally started in November, there have been only a few small pullbacks. Those declines haven’t even ...
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The Maverick of Wall Street: This Is the Unhealthiest Stock Market Rally in History
Stocks continued higher over the past week, with the Nasdaq and S&P 500 hitting new all-time highs. However, while the ...
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The Lead-Lag Report: The Most Deceptive (And Phony) Bull Market In History
While the market hovers near all-time highs, there are a number of signs that this market rally is unhealthy. That ...
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FX Evolution: Most People Will Ignore This Stock Market Warning Sign
Nvidia (NVDA) has been the market darling for the past 18 months. The rise of AI technologies means that the ...
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FX Evolution: This Doesn’t Happen Everyday
Year-to-date, the stock market is up over 10%. That’s above average, given its historic average annual return of 8.8%. Typically, ...
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A Wealth of Common Sense: No, the Stock Market Is Not Rigged Against the Little Guy
The recent resurgence of “meme” stocks, and their quick drop back down, seems to indicate something is awry in financial ...
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Trader’s Insight: Why Did VIX Close at Long-Term Lows Last Week?
For years, traders have used the market volatility index, or VIX, as a tool for measuring the jumpiness of markets ...
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Rebel Capitalist: You Won’t Believe This … Meme Stocks Are Back
It’s been three years since retail investors pushed the price of video game retailer GameStop (GME) higher. Hedge funds had ...
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Invest With Jacob: SP500 Technical Analysis (Elliott Wave Theory)
The stock market’s sideways trend has broken lower in recent sessions, following weeks of a deteriorating structure. Markets trended sideways ...
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David Lin: How the Mother of All Market Rallies Would End
The strong market rally is like a rubber band being pulled. Eventually, there’s likely to be a snap back. And ...
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Game of Trades: Institutions are ALL IN
The stock market rally going on since November feels like it’s run too far, for too long. Stocks tend to ...
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The Compound: The Recession We Deserve
The Federal Reserve started raising interest rates in 2022. At the time, investors thought the central bank would make only ...
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Joseph Carlson: Google’s Dominance Is Over
Earnings season is winding down. Big tech companies saved the market from potentially selling off after their multi-month rally. Chipmakers ...
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Elliott Wave Options: S&P Worries Inflation Too Hot! … Correction Coming?
Last week’s economic data showed that both consumer and producer inflation is staying higher than expected. That’s a concern for ...
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A Wealth of Common Sense: Is the U.S. Stock Market Too Concentrated?
Currently, six stocks in the S&P 500 have market caps of over $1 trillion. That’s up from zero a decade ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Bulls Don’t Care About Fed Delays … S&P 5,000 Target
For the past few months, stocks have been in an uptrend. The narrative has been around the fact that the ...
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Praetorian Capital: The Blowoff
Investing involves tradeoffs. And investors need to decide not only what to own, but how to allocate what they own ...
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Elliott Wave Options: All Time High… Elliott Wave Algorithm Targets 5000
Stocks are pushing higher. Economic data seems to be in a “goldilocks” spot, where it’s not too bullish or bearish ...
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FX Evolution: Has the Stock Market Flashed a Warning Signal?
January has proven a slow month for the market. But there may be some weakness in the weeks ahead. That’s ...
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FX Evolution: Did the Fed Just Pull the Pin On the Stock Market?
Stocks started the year in extreme greed mode. While that’s calmed slightly in the first trading week of the year, ...
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Elliott Wave Trader: S&P Holding at Wave 3… Seasonal Drift Higher
The past two months have offered one of the strongest short-term rallies in market history. Stocks soared in November, reversing ...
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Value Investing With Sven Carlin: Stock Market Projections for 2024
The start of a new year tends to bring predictions about the path of the economy. Many big bank CEOs ...
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Elliott Wave Options: S&P Ignores Fed Concerns at Key Level
The stock market’s strong rally in the past few weeks has taken stocks back to levels last seen in early ...
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FX Evolution: The Last Time This Happened, Stocks Moved Over 20%…
The last hundred years of financial markets have shown seventeen events similar to the market’s recent drop and subsequent rally ...
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The Compound and Friends: Entering Year Two of the Bull Market with Tom Lee
The 2022 bear market hit its bottom about this time last year. Even with the recent drop, stocks are up ...
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Elliott Wave Options: New Bearish Elliott Wave is Bad News
Since the stock market peaked in July, it’s pulled back, making higher highs and higher lows. This type of zig-zag ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Elliott Wave 4 Bounce? … Support at 50% Retracement
After the market’s steep drop in September, investors are looking for where the market may find support and start moving ...
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The Rational Reminder Podcast: Expected Returns of the AI Revolution
The stock market has been driven higher by the prospect of AI technologies this year. Every industry can benefit from ...
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Game of Trades: A Storm Is Coming for Banks
It’s now been six months since the second and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history. While investors have largely shrugged ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Elliott Wave 4 Break Down? Cryptic Fed Leaves Traders Guessing
The market has seen more volatility in the past few weeks after a quiet run higher since the start of ...
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Data Driven Investor: Investing: 17 Forecasts for 2023
Whether it’s earnings season or not, Wall Street spends considerable time forecasting prices for stocks, typically as far out as ...
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Game of Trades: History Shows That This Is Not Sustainable
While the stock market is closing in on new all-time highs, there’s one big reason to give investors pause. That ...
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The Lead-Lag Report: Putting the Bulls on Notice
While the stock market has trended up this year, there’s been a lot more mixed activity behind the headline numbers ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Zig-Zag Pattern May Reach Above 4600?
The market continues higher, following its strong gains for the year so far. It’s even defied expectations for a summer ...
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Game of Trades: This Hasn’t Happened to Stocks Since 1967
Since January, stocks are up about 11 percent. That move occurred after a signal triggered suggesting that stocks would post ...
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TFTC: Killer Whale Liquidity Crisis
While markets have had a strong trend higher so far this year, there’s a limit to how high stocks can ...
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A Wealth of Common Sense: How Cheap (or Expensive) Is the Stock Market Right Now?
There are plenty of ways to value the stock market as a whole. Investors who look at multiple valuation models ...
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FX Evolution: Nobody Is Talking About This…
The S&P 500 has popped out of bear market territory, with a 20 percent rise off of its lows this ...
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Phoenix Capital Research: There’s Something “Unusual” About This Market Rally… I Think I Know What It Is
Stocks are bullish, despite some negative day-to-day headlines. The S&P 500’s 200-day moving average is moving higher. That’s a good ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Debt Ceiling Rally Means Nothing Yet
The market has been largely rangebound for the past few weeks. Investors have faced the potential of a U.S. government ...
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Traders’ Insight: Who’s the Marginal Buyer?
When a stock goes up, the simplest explanation is that buyers exceeded sellers. And when a stock goes down, likewise, ...
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EPB Research: These Banks Are Next…
The second, third, and fourth-largest bank failures in U.S. history have occurred so far this year. That suggests the financial ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Are Bonds Hinting Next BIG S&P Move?
Markets have had much to digest in the past few weeks. From big tech earnings to the latest Federal Reserve ...
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Game of Trades: US Economy Just Hit a Massive Debt Wall
The past year has seen the fastest rise in interest rates in over 40 years. This big shift has rapidly ...
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Trader’s Insight: Bed, Bath and the Great Beyond
The world of retail lost a big name this week, as Bed, Bath and Beyond announced its bankruptcy. The company ...
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Game of Trades: This Is Now Worse Than Before the 2008 Financial Crisis
The stock market closed out the first quarter of the year entering a new bull market. Many stocks more than ...
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George Gammon: The Fed Just Broke Everything
Over the past year, the Federal Reserve has aggressively raised interest rates at its fastest pace in 40 years. The ...
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Elliott Wave Options: 68% Of Investors Expect More Downside!
Short-term market moves often come down to expectations. If traders expect good news, stocks may rise in anticipation. However, if ...
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Game of Trades: Domino Effect of a Typical Banking Crisis: More Bank Failures Are Going to Lead to Widespread Panic
Liquidity issues have led to two bank closures in the past week. They mark the second and third-largest closures in ...
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A Wealth of Common Sense: Does Long-Term Investing Work Outside of the United States?
While investing with the long term in mind can be volatile, it does offer substantial benefits for investors who follow ...
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ValueWalk: Stock Investing Risk Is Variable, Not Constant
Investors tend to think of the stock market as having some risk, at least over the short term. But investors ...
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Elliott Wave Options: Fed Confident They’re Right
Markets tend to make notable jumps on small events. For instance, this week, stocks jumped higher on Tuesday as Federal ...
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What Happens Next: How Should I Invest My Money?
When it comes to investing, the pandemic era created a false sense of how to succeed. Rather than target high-growth ...
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Game of Trades: Dumb Money is going All In on the SP500 Rally
Market rallies tend to start on investor skepticism, with a few brave investors buying in. Institutional investors tend to follow, ...
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FX Evolution: Smart Money Slumps as Dumb Money FOMOS Stocks?
Traders can get a sense of how markets are performing by following money inflows and outflows. Big order flows signal ...
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Game of Trades: SP500 Internals Are Flashing a Major Signal
There are plenty of data points for investors to consider when gauging a market move. When stocks rise on light ...
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Game of Trades: This Only Just Got Started
While investors can get a sense for the market from the big-picture data, looking at the charts can also show ...
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Game of Trades: This Is Going to Trigger a Massive Top on the S&P 500
One of the unusual features of the stock market decline this year has been volatility. As measured by the VIX, ...
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Game of Trades: Is a European 2008 About to Trigger a Stock Market Collapse?
US investors are cautiously optimistic as inflation is starting to show year-over-year declines. That indicates that the Federal Reserve is ...
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Game of Trades: No SP500 Bottom Has Occurred Without This Signal
The stock market had a solid run over the past few weeks. While October is historically a poor month for ...
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Meet Kevin: A Massive, Sudden Market U-Turn
The stock market may be down for the year, but that move hasn’t occurred in a straight line. There have ...
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The Big Picture: Tom Rampulla
There are plenty of ways to invest. One of the easiest for retail investors is to buy an index fund ...
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FX Evolution: The World’s Biggest Stock Market Hedge Has Mean Reverted!
Markets can be tough to figure out. Sometimes, good news is good news – leading to higher prices. At other ...
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Game of Trades: A Major Capitulation Event is Occurring on the Stock Market
The stock market broke down last week, rejecting a key technical level. That led to a large amount of selling ...
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Natalie Brunell: Double Digit Inflation in 2023?!
While the past few months have showed a slowing rate of inflation, consumer prices are still rising at their highest ...
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Game of Trades: For the 4th Time in 2022, the S&P 500 Is Rejected After Being Wrong About Inflation
Investors are likely sick of hearing about inflation impacting their investments this year. Particularly as inflation continues to remain strong, ...
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The Reformed Broker: Short Sellers Take Over
The stock market turned on a dime last week following the hawkish speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Now, ...
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The Big Picture: Cyclical Bear Within a Secular Bull
Where does the market stand now? It may depend on your timeframe. That’s because markets tend to move in cycles ...
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Bigger Pockets: Why the Stock Market Should NOT Scare You
Investors tend to make the biggest mistakes when they get emotional. And let’s face it… it’s easy to get emotional ...
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A Wealth of Common Sense: Ben’s 4 Common Sense Rules of Investing
The recent bear market has wreaked havoc for portfolios of investors large and small. During a market rally, it’s easy ...
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Game of Trades: This Is a Worse Reading than the Bottom of 2008
The S&P 500 has had a 14 percent rally off its recent low, following a six-month period of dropping. Does ...
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Let’s Talk Money: Is the 2022 Stock Market Crash Over?
July marked the best month for the stock market since November 2020. Overall, the S&P 500 rallied by 9 percent ...
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Of Dollars and Data: Right Now, But Wrong Later
The stock market has turned bearish. And many investors are now expecting a further drop in stocks every day, rather ...
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Game of Trades: THIS Will Trigger an SP500 MOVE We Have Not Seen in 13 Years
A confluence of economic data suggests that we’re entering into a full-blown bear market. Between trends like employment, inflation, fuel ...
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How to Invest Like George Soros
George Soros is a trading legend. And, he is an investment legend because he achieved amazing results. Over more than ...
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A 5G Investment Hidden in Plain Sight
Fifth generation, or 5G, wireless systems are set to change the way cell phones connect to the world. The truth ...
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Reading a Cloud Chart
Ichimoku Cloud charts are a popular tool for analysts, perhaps because they are visually appealing. The most prominent feature on ...
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This Could Be the Most Important Decision for Investors
While many investors spend a great deal of time considering what to buy, that may not be the most important ...
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Here’s What Really Happens In An IPO
We often see reports of initial public offering (IPO) tinged with excitement. There is anticipation prior to the first day ...
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Selling Could Be the Most Important Part of Investing
A recent study found that professional investment managers are fairly good at picking stocks to buy. Their research efforts are ...
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This Beaten Down Sector Could Be a Buy
News can often affect a stock’s price. That is especially true when the news is related to earnings and the ...
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What Stock Buy Backs Really Mean
Stock buy backs are a controversial topic in some circles. But investors should know that Warren Buffett is in favor ...
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This Peak Could Doom the Stock Market
Investors often focus on earnings, or sales, or how the company is growing its earnings or sales. Other investors might ...
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Understanding the Stock Market as a Game
There are differences, as we all know, between playing golf as a weekend player and a professional. These differences can ...
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Emerging Markets Could Be a Buy, Again
Investors have heard the same call to action many times in the past. Expert analysts point out that there is ...
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Cats Are Pets, and Potentially an Important Investment Theme
There are more than 74 million cats in over 36 million American households according to estimates from the American Veterinary ...
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Uber, Lyft and Pinterest Could Be Signaling Investors
CNBC is warning that “Euphoric IPO market may be a troubling sign for stocks” and the article notes, “Billion-dollar private ...
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This Might Be the Best Way to Look at Boeing as an Investment
When it comes to corporate disasters, the thought of Boeing may be on the mind of many investors. Boeing’s brand-new ...
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This Obscure Indicator Can Help You Beat the Market
Many investors use indicators. Popular fundamental indicators include the price to earnings (P/E) ratio and the dividend yield. Popular technical ...
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Big Investors Are Doing Something Small Investors Should Consider
On Wall Street, many analysts talk about the smart money. This represents the large funds and investors with millions of ...
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Amazon Could Be the Next Walmart
Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) has been a great stock market performer and great performance often leads to skepticism. Investors become concerned ...
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How to Trade the Change From FAANG To FAANGUP
The FAANG stocks are the market leaders, a group of tech stocks consisting of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), ...
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After a One Day Drop of More Than 50%, Is This Company a Buy?
It's unusual to see a multi-billion-dollar company lose more than half of its value in one day. But that happened ...
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Robots Could Be the Next Big Investment Theme
Robots have been an almost constant theme in the public imagination for decades. Television shows in the 1960s often featured ...
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Here’s What Berkshire’s Oracle Buy Really Means
For at least some Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKB) watchers, the recent news from the company might have been surprising. Like ...
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This Billionaire Likes Garbage
Billionaire investors can provide useful information to individual investors. As an example of that, we can consider a recent news ...
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Stocks Under $15 With Growth and Income
Low priced stocks can deliver large gains, if the company can be successful. When considering what makes a company successful, ...
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Potential Stock Market Winners Under the Green New Deal
Recently, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Ed Markey introduced a nonbinding resolution that calls for ...
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Earnings Peaked, And This Is Important, But Overlooked, News
Earnings season is underway. With about half of the companies in the S&P 500 having delivered their results for the ...
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How a New Risk Could Affect Your Investments
Risk factors are commonly discussed among investors. Many think of the greatest risk factor being a bear market which is ...
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Be Sure You Have Realistic Expectations
Millennials are more optimistic than perhaps many realize. At least that’s the case when it comes to their personal finances ...
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Losses Hurt More Than Many Investors Realize
Many investors readily adopt an attitude that they can’t beat the market. This makes sense for many since they have ...
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Ladders Could Be the Best Fixed Income Allocation
Interest rates rise and fall nearly every day. That is true for almost any investment in the financial markets. But ...
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This Could Be A Big Year for Initial Public Offerings
This could be a big year for initial public offerings or IPOs. According to Investopedia, The process of offering shares ...
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How to Invest the Year After “The Year No One Made Money”
Many investors are pleased that 2018 is over. Some analysts are calling it the year that no one made money ...
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